Mushroom season off to a slow start thanks to dry summer

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"We dug down into the mulch in the ground to see if there was moisture down there, and it was really dry," said Noah Dailey-McIlrath. "Just a couple inches down there was no water."

He went mushroom hunting last weekend but only found two chanterelles, a variety of mushroom that can only be found in natural conditions. "They have to be wildcrafted because they cannot replicate their conditions on a farm," Dailey-McIlrath said.